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In 1928 Russia had decided to launch its first 5 year plan to rapidly industrialise and catch up to the rest of Western Europe in terms of economic and technological strengths With this rapid industrialisation came many problems ranging from social political and economical factors where one problem ties into another problem from another factor Social problems arose from industrialisation in many ways such as horrible living conditions that came from too much concentration of building factories and mines by the government This was a problem because it was contributing to workers discontent to work This led to more absenteeism which was not only a social problem but was slowing production and had brought up economic problems as well Another problem was workers having to work in horrible unsafe conditions because of the pressures of meeting marked targets of production leading them to ignore safetyThere was also close to no pay or incentive to work any money workers did make was nearly useless since the governments lack of attention to textile and home product productions gave workers nothing to buy This could be an extension of another social problem such as the back breaking hours workers went through in the form of the uninterrupted week where factories would be open 7 days a week only having 1 day off which would in all likelihood have been different from ones spouse Working constantly barely being able to see family a horrible home and worthless money will all led up to huge social problems and unrest Political problems arose from industrialisation in many ways as well but one of the main effecting problems that also brings up social and economic problems is the removal of capitalist classes such as Nepmen and bourgeois experts Though this may seem to be a victory for communism by having a class-less society the removal of these Nepmen and bourgeuis experts in reality was an act of dumbing-down the country Most

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